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[deusexmechanic]

WHO: Harper and Uhura
WHEN: First night of the flood
WHERE: Uhura's room
WHAT: SINGING AND SINGING. They're both stressed as hell by the great Barge recall of September's apping season, and they both need to unload. MUSICALLY!
WARNINGS: POSSIBLE SCHMOOP, POSSIBLE SEX, DEFINITE SINGING, DEFINITE MOANING ABOUT STUPID PEOPLE COMING BACK TO THE

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[lt_n_uhura]

She knew that it probably should have been creepy, but this flood had her in a little better mood than normal. She enjoyed singing. Some of the voices she heard weren't exactly the best, but at least they were trying and she was surrounded by music.

She had to laugh a few times about it to keep herself from dwelling on the bad things that had been happening.

So when she heard the knock, she got out of bed and padded over to the door, wrapping a robe around herself tightly. She opened the door and blinked.

"Harper?" She was surprised, but not upset.

[deusexmechanic]

She didn't seem to mind that he was there! That was good, because jeeze, after the last couple of days, Harper really wanted to unload on someone. While he was pretty sure if he asked, Data would be prepared to listen the android just didn't look quite as good in a robe as Uhura did. Besides, when she was answering the door looking like that? It was pretty hard for him to regret his decision.

He opened his mouth, fully intending to explain himself to her, when... against all his conscious judgment, something completely different emerged,

"All the planets in the world
And so very little time, and
So many different girls...
When all I had to do was find you

Every wasted opportunity, each breakdown, each emergency
A lifetime I spent trying to run away from being somebody
Say how'd you like to run away from these machines?"Harper clapped a hand over his mouth, suddenly cutting off the music. What. The. Hell. This wasn't just him talking and music magically arranging itself around his words, (which was more or less what had

[lt_n_uhura]

Honestly, there was very little she could do but stare. As the lyrics sunk in, something like fear swept through her stomach, though she didn't know where it came from. Those lyrics were genuine. Not just generic, hand me down sort of mishmash, nor something stolen straight from someone else. She was frozen in her spot, unable to move until the song had concluded and she spotted the identical fear across his face.

"Harper..." She stepped back, though it was an invitation, rather than her pulling away. A somewhat desperate invitation, as she felt just hauling him in wouldn't do any good. But, as she looked down, waiting for him to come in, her voice came through clear in song, her years of training obviously coming through.

"The dawn is breaking
A light shining through
You're barely waking
And I'm tangled up in you

I'm open, you're closed
Where I follow, you'll go
I worry I won't see your face
Light up again."And here she choked up in embarrassment, turning away, though she continued to sing, looking up to the ceiling, praying for

[deusexmechanic]

The moment he could Harper was inside and closing the door, quietly mortified by how hideously public he'd made his musical declaration of love. Slumping his back against it, he suddenly tuned into what she was singing.

That was one hell of a voice Uhura had on her. He forced himself to try and focus on what she was actually saying. He could pick up bits of it, he didn't quite understand all of it, but the bit about them colliding sounded good to him. Not quite like he was getting kicked out yet, at least. When she finished, he took a deep breath,

"I-- Jeeze. Uhura, your voice, it's..."

He trailed off. After all that singing it was kind of hard to find the right words, now.

"...I'm sorry."